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Bulbul from Formosa, which he had described as Pycnonotus 

 taivanus in 'The Ibis ' for 1893 (p. 470). 



Mr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S,^ read a paper on the 

 proper names of Indian Eagles. A discussion ensued on the 

 synonymy of these birds^ especially of those of the group of 

 the Spotted Eagles (Aquila clanga, A. macuJata, &c.). 

 Mr. Blanford^s paper will be published in ' The Ibis.' 



The following communication from Mr. O. Salvin, F.R.S., 

 on a new Humming-bird was read : — 



+ '' Anthocephala berlepschi, sp. nov. 



''A. floricipiti similis, sed apicibus rectricum lateralium late 

 albis nee cervinis, abdomine et tectricibus subcaudalibus 

 grisescentibus nee rufescentibus distinguenda. 

 " ? a femina A. floricipiti eodem modo differt. 



" Hab. Colombia ; environs of Bogota. 



" Mus. Berlepsch et Brit. 



" Obs. Graf H. von Berlepsch has sent me a beautiful male 

 specimen of an Anthocephala in which he, with his usual 

 acumen, has noticed the differences from A. floriceps, as 

 pointed out above. I have compared it with the type of the 

 latter species, which, with a female of the true A. floriceps, 

 is in the British Museum. 



" In the same collection are two other skins which, in the 

 Catalogue of Trochilidse (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 172), 

 I placed with A. floriceps. One is a male with several of the 

 rectrices missing ; the other is a female in poor condition. 

 With Count v. Berlepsch's beautiful male before me, it is 

 evident that both these specimens {b and c) belong to the 

 bird which I now separate. 



"All three are skins of the so-called Bogota make, and 

 doubtless came from some upland locality within the 

 hunting-grounds of the Bogota bird-collectors. The two 

 specimens of A. floj'iceps in the Museum were shot at an 

 elevation of 5000 feet above the sea in the Sierra Nevada of 

 Santa Marta.^' 



